"Globalizing a Second Knowledge Revolution for Better Health"

Fully Online: October 27 –28, 2025 in Europe and the Americas
October 28 and 29 in Asia and Australia

What's the Second Knowledge Revolution?

The 15th century invention of the moveable-type printing press spawned the first knowledge revolution which enabled mass access to the world's knowledge in human-readable form.  In the 21st century, an ecosystem of computable knowledge can spawn a second revolution which enables mass action: sharing and implementation of knowledge at unprecedented scale. Human society is still improving health using 15th-century methods. It's time to move ahead.  MCBK can make the revolution happen.

Global MCBK is evolving into four chapters: in North America, the U.K., continental Europe, and Australasia.  Join your colleagues from around the world at this important meeting.

The meeting will take place over two days, and each day there will be two sessions to accommodate as much of the world as possible.

The eighth annual meeting will have two 4-hour sessions on Day 1, Session 1 will run from 9 AM to 1 PM U.S. Eastern Time on October 27, and Session 2 will run from 10 AM to 2 PM Australian Eastern Time on October 28 (7 PM to 11 PM U.S. Eastern Time on October 27). 

Day 2 will consist of interactive sessions and lightning talk presentations, with two sessions at the same times as Day 1.

Day 1 speakers include:

• Clare Morgan and Shaun Rowark, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), UK

• Aziz Boxwala, Elimu Informatics, USA

• Hamish Fraser, Brown University, USA

• Niels Peek, Cambridge University, UK

• Karin Verspoor, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

• Paul Glasziou, Bond University, Australia

Day 2 sessions include:

• Henrique Martins, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal

• Adam Dunn, University of Sydney, Australia

• Lightning Talk presentations

• Workshops on:

  • Setting Evidence-Based Medicine on FHIR

  • Representing Computable Knowledge as FAIR Digital Objects

  • Role of Business Process Modeling as Computable Knowledge

  • Improving FAIRability of your research outputs with RO-Crate

  • Open Forum on Innovative Librarian Engagements in MCBK

  • Potential for LLMs in Narrative Guideline Translation to Computable Knowledge

  • Building Bridges: Converging the Interoperable Data Ecosystem